Vnukovo Airport and Transaero Airlines Signed Memorandum of Strategic Cooperation

In accordance with the Memorandum the carrier and the airport become strategic partners striving for development of Russian civil aviation market and balanced development of the Moscow aviation hub. 

Partners will cooperate on improvement of ground handling of passengers, luggage, air mail and cargo quality with high level of safety and security in full compliance with ICAO and IATA requirements as well as rules and regulations of the Russian legislation. 
Transaero will start operations from Vnukovo in May 2012. The carrier will constantly increase its capacity to handle eventually up to 2 million passengers annually. 
The airport will provide the airline for the necessary infrastructure including slots, parking area and passenger boarding bridges for wide body aircraft. 
From Vnukovo Transaero will perform flights on both domestic and international routes. 
The airport will guarantee the priority to the carrier’s large and extra-large aircraft including Airbus A380s, Boeing 747s and Boeing 777s at all the stages of service on the ground and at the air side of the airport. 
Since the second half of 2015 the airport will provide no less than four parking places (two for domestic flights and two for international) for passengers’ service of flights performed with Airbus À380 and Âoeing 747-8 Intercontinental aircraft. 
At the terminal Transaero will be able to arrange a branded area for service of its passengers including check-in area, separate Sales and Information Office, self check-in kiosks, etc. 
Vnukovo will provide a special area for service of Transaero’s business and Imperial class passengers. 
The airport will give an opportunity of high-quality service (including transfer service) for passengers and their luggage of Transaero’s flights to and from Kazakhstan since October 2012. 
The airport and the airline will set up a MRO facility for Transaero’s aircraft at Vnukovo. 
The airport will assign two bays at its hangar for maintenance work on Boeing 747, Âoeing 777 aircraft and other types of jetliners which are currently operated by the carrier. Vnukovo will also provide parking places for Transaero’s Boeing 747 and Boeing 777 aircraft. 
Two sides have agreed to construct a new hangar for MRO of Airbus A380 and Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental aircraft. 
The parties have agreed to build a training center (no less than 3000 sq/m of size) with four full-flight simulators. Transaero will invest in complete equipment of the centre and will buy out the constructions to own them. 
The memorandum comes into effect from the moment of signing by the parties and is valid for 10 years. 
Transaero Airlines General Director Olga Pleshakova said: “We have signed a very important agreement which opens new prospects for the development of our airline in Moscow. I highly appreciate the aspiration of Vnukovo airport to provide the most advanced and innovative services to Transaero Airlines. I’m confident that strategic cooperation between Transaero and Vnukovo will be a success, and our passengers will benefit from it”. 
“We’ll do our best to make Transaero’s operations via Vnukovo safe and comfortable” – said International Vnukovo Airport Chairman of Board of Directors Vitaly Vantsev. He believes that Vnukovo has reached a new level of development and has received a number of advantages which make the company attractive for airlines and passengers. It is the result of work of all its staff.